劳伦斯·弗里德曼爵士，现为英国伦敦国王大学战争系荣休教授、伦敦国王学院战争研究系的教授和主管研究的副校长，研究领域涉及冲突、安全与历史，他在国际历史、战略理论与核武器相关领域著述颇丰，经常就当代安全问题发表时事评论。卡赞斯坦曾称其为一位“现实主义的建构主义者”。他的著作曾获得美国国际事务图书类“阿瑟·罗斯奖”、莱昂内尔·吉尔伯奖和威斯敏斯特公爵军事文学奖。

劳伦斯·弗里德曼爵士，现为英国伦敦国王大学战争系荣休教授、伦敦国王学院战争研究系的教授和主管研究的副校长，研究领域涉及冲突、安全与历史，他在国际历史、战略理论与核武器相关领域著述颇丰，经常就当代安全问题发表时事评论。卡赞斯坦曾称其为一位“现实主义的建构主义者”。他的著作曾获得美国国际事务图书类“阿瑟·罗斯奖”、莱昂内尔·吉尔伯奖和威斯敏斯特公爵军事文学奖。

The most beguilingly seductive novel to date from the author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry. Winterson chronicles the consuming affair between the narrator, who is given neither name nor gender, and the beloved, a complex and confused married woman. "At once a love story and a philosophical meditation."--New York Times Book Review.

From Publishers Weekly This fourth effort from British writer Winterson ( Sexing the Cherry ) is a high-concept erotic novelette， a Vox for the postmarital crowd. The narrator， a lifelong philanderer ("I used to think marriage was a plate-glass window just begging for a brick")， has fallen in love with Louise， a pre-Raphaelite beauty. Louise is unhappily married to a workaholi...(展开全部)

This is a love story and, like all Winterson's novels, a philosophical meditation, this time on the body: as the repository for our emotions and souls. The object is a married woman, Louise, and the narrator is her lover, gender undeclared. The affair intensifies beyond anything either of the lovers has ever known or hoped for. And as they dissect their passion and longing, Jea...(展开全部)

From Publishers Weekly This fourth effort from British writer Winterson ( Sexing the Cherry ) is a high-concept erotic novelette， a Vox for the postmarital crowd. The narrator， a lifelong philanderer ("I used to think marriage was a plate-glass window just begging for a brick")， has fallen in love with Louise， a pre-Raphaelite beauty. Louise is unhappily married to a workaholi...(展开全部)

This is a love story and, like all Winterson's novels, a philosophical meditation, this time on the body: as the repository for our emotions and souls. The object is a married woman, Louise, and the narrator is her lover, gender undeclared. The affair intensifies beyond anything either of the lovers has ever known or hoped for. And as they dissect their passion and longing, Jea...(展开全部)

The most beguilingly seductive novel to date from the author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry. Winterson chronicles the consuming affair between the narrator, who is given neither name nor gender, and the beloved, a complex and confused married woman. "At once a love story and a philosophical meditation."--New York Times Book Review.

Known as "the Garbo of Chinese letters" for her elegance and the aura of mystery that surrounded her, Eileen Chang is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential modern Chinese novelists and cultural critics of the twentieth century. In Written on Water, first published in 1945 and now available for the first time in English, Chang offers essays on art, literature, wa...(展开全部)

This new edition of the "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" is the first prepared especially for American history courses. David W. Blight's extensive introduction and the related materials he provides place the Narrative in both its historical and literary contexts. The book also includes a chronology of Douglass's life, a bibliography, questions for consideration, i...(展开全部)